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Sunrise’s rebrand is not subtle. The group now wants to build the “muscle of non-cooperation,” escalate student walkouts, target companies linked to ICE, and move toward mass student strikes in 2027 and a general strike in 2028. @CityJournal I’ve been buried and haven’t had time to cut a promo video for this article.

It’s a great look at where the Sunrise Movement is in 2026. Climate activism has taken a back seat to “getting rid of the authoritarian government we’re in.” city-journal.org/article/sunris…

🧵DSA-LA’s 2026 voter guide is not just a list of endorsements. It is full of dirty laundry and ruthless pragmatism.

They recommend Nithya Raman for mayor over DSA member Rae Huang, even after admitting DSA-LA previously censured Raman for accepting a pro-Israel Democratic club endorsement.

They frame Marissa Roy as their first citywide power play, celebrate Eunisses Hernandez as the anti-LAPD model of socialist electoralism, praise Hugo Soto-Martinez’s “co-governance,” and describe Faizah Malik’s opponent Traci Park as “a nexus point of every working class enemy interest in LA.” It certainly says a lot that @spencerpratt’s section in DSA-LA’s Primary Election Voter Guide focuses more on The Hills than on his actual platform.

DSA-LA does not refute Spencer Pratt’s ideas. It doesn't even mention them. Instead, the guide treats him like a pop-culture punchline because engaging his actual message would mean admitting he is speaking to real frustration in Los Angeles politics.

And that treatment appears to be unique. Other candidates get ideological labels, policy summaries, donor analysis, and strategic assessments. Pratt gets reality TV jokes, an AARP bit, and a hat joke.

But the funny part is that Pratt’s rise is still forcing DSA-LA into a tactical corner. Their own guide admits he is polling high enough to make the runoff, and that if he does, Karen Bass is probably cruising to a second term.

So after all the internal drama, the straw poll, and the obvious discomfort with Nithya Raman, DSA-LA still lands on Raman because Pratt has made the math unavoidable. They may mock him, but they are also reacting to him.

🚨 BREAKING: “Death to America” Comes to @virginia_tech

At Virginia Tech tonight, Mohamed Abdou opened his “Death to the Akademy” speech by declaring, “We are in a war, a racial religious war since 1492.”

He told students America is “the larger monster,” praised “General Sinwar,” called October 7 the “blessed day of Al-Aqsa Flood,” and said jihad can mean defending life “using the sword.”

Then he praised students as “a branch of the resistance” and said they were recognized as “a branch of the mujahideen.”

And when he explained “Death to America,” he was explicit.

“When we say Death to America, we mean, and loud and clear, a total end to U.S. empire. The destruction of this crusading settler colony, their entire project.”

Virginia Tech spent the last few days insisting this event was not happening. It happened. And this is what was said.

Stick around, because there is a lot more to unpack. We are not even halfway through his speech yet. Attention: @CACIIntl, @SystemsPlanning, @MITREcorp, @LeidosInc, @northropgrumman, and @LockheedMartin.

You all have documented partnerships, funding relationships, or national-security recruiting pipelines with Virginia Tech.

You may want to know what Mohamed Abdou told students there.

He urged people to “halt the weapons industry,” “destroy locally where you are at,” and disrupt “every single choke point” and “every single supply chain bottleneck” by “all means necessary.”

Why should any defense contractor keep investing in a university that is trying to downplay this?

🚨 BREAKING: Far-left May Day agitators are shutting down major roadways across Washington, D.C.

Blocking highways isn’t “peaceful protest.” It’s organized coercion through public disruption. This is what civil terrorism looks like. “This is what democracy looks like,” according to Free DC: blocking roads so ordinary people can’t get to work.

They say they’re trying to “end the occupation,” raise awareness for May Day, and push D.C. statehood.

Instead, they’re staging a little occupation of their own.

🚨 At The People’s Forum, Mohsen Mahdawi Says Social Media Built the Pro-Palestinian Movement’s “Infrastructure,” Calls It a “New Revolution”

Former Columbia encampment leader Mohsen Mahdawi, whose path to a Columbia philosophy degree stretched from his 2014 arrival in the U.S. to his 2025 graduation, spoke at The People’s Forum earlier this week.

Mahdawi described social media as one of the pro-Palestinian movement’s most powerful achievements. He said the movement has built an “infrastructure” through social media that lets activists bypass mass media, share information directly, and decide where to focus their energy.

Mahdawi later framed social media as part of a “new revolution” in campaigning: a way to “present yourself,” “combat big money” and “AIPAC money,” and speak “your truth” against established institutions.

His praise for Hasan Piker fits into that analysis too. Mahdawi called Hasan “a force” who helped bring many people together, even though Hasan ultimately skipped the event over safety concerns. Remember, Mahdawi presents himself as a prime mover of the Palestinian movement at Columbia, with organizing plans that he says predated October 7.

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🚨 Podcast with Nearly 100K Followers Cheers Attacks on Sam Altman’s Home, Swoons Over Alleged Arsonist, Recasts MLK as Turning Toward Violence

It might seem strange to spend time on podcast clips like this, but this is exactly how extremism gets normalized.

The Loud & Gay Show is not merely reacting to the attacks on Sam Altman’s house. The hosts are openly cheering them on. One host, Noa, says “That’s even better” at the possibility of multiple attacks, then adds that it would be “funnier” if one person saw the first attack and decided “that’s a great idea.”

It gets even more grotesque when the conversation turns to the warehouse arsonist. After describing the fire and the scale of the damage, guest Lily Eagla starts gushing over Chamel Abdulkarim’s appearance, saying he had “beautiful large eyebrows like you [co-host Rob Apollo] and Luigi Mangione.”

They then slide straight into historical revisionism, claiming that “the non-violence approach only works if there is a violent arm” and suggesting MLK was basically moving toward “we gotta start smoking [shooting]” people before “they shot him.”

This is information warfare. It is propaganda dressed up as podcast chatter that normalizes political violence, romanticizes arson, and launders militant politics through irony. Wild that something like this is casually hosted on @YouTube. Lily Eagla is also worth noting here. She recently traveled to Cuba with The People’s Forum and openly identifies herself as a propagandist.

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Far-left activists are targeting Palantir in city after city. In Denver, 44 weeks of sustained protests and pressure helped drive the company out of Colorado. Now radical organizers across the country want to replicate that success. I’m incredibly excited for you all to read this article. It builds on much of my previous work covering these groups and how they operate. For those who read my work regularly, very little here will come as a surprise. city-journal.org/article/palant…

👀 Didn’t have time to watch 4 hours of SNEAKO x Dugin x Jiang? I got you.

This supercut shows exactly what it was, foreign propaganda targeted at young American men and designed to turn them against their own country.

Topics included “the Founding Fathers were heretical Calvinists,” the claim that “the root of the problem is 1694” because that is when “the Bank of England was first chartered,” “the Statue of Liberty is Hecate, the goddess of hell,” and “America is a financial Ponzi scheme… there would be economic collapse, civil war.”

They even spiral into interpreting Trump’s social media posts, casting Trump as a Christ figure “healing” what looked like Jeffrey Epstein, with references to Moloch and the Statue of Liberty layered in.

And if someone is telling you the Enlightenment is evil, rest assured they are advancing an authoritarian worldview. If you’re a young guy looking for wisdom and finding it in the Sneako universe, give 11 minutes to Roger Scruton. If you can sit through 4 hours of Dugin and Jiang, you can spare a few minutes for a genuinely serious thinker.

🚨 DSA National Leader David Jenkins Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Our Goal Is Communism”

You may have seen the recent New York Post piece on David Jenkins, the DSA mime leader who also holds national leadership. Since mimes are usually silent, it seemed worth letting people hear Jenkins in his own words.

Consider this supercut a helpful guide for anyone still wondering what “libertarian socialism” looks like in practice.

Though he brands himself a libertarian socialist, Jenkins frames the broader DSA project in explicit terms, “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.”

He calls for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, aligns himself with a political tendency that includes anarchists and left communists, and says he was the “only DSA member” at a January 6 counter-protest in Washington.

Speaking about his campaign against the SRG, Jenkins escalates the rhetoric further, “We’re not going anywhere until your goons finally start killing us, because that’s where this shit is going.”

He also fumes that the NYPD protected those attending a rally in support of Daniel Penny, which he denounces as a “disgusting display” by “outside agitators from Long Island” celebrating a “self-deputized racist murderer.”

Stick around, for more clips! David Jenkins recounts traveling to Washington on January 6, 2021 for what he describes as a counter-protest, then walking to the Capitol and spending an hour watching the riot unfold.

Jenkins says he felt like he had entered “the timeline where the fascists win” and came away convinced that if a coup had succeeded, police in New York would have enforced it.

But the story does not end in Washington. Jenkins says that the very next day he joined a protest organized by NYC DSA and coalition partners in Brooklyn, where he watched “my future mayor Zohran Mamdani” speak outside Chuck Schumer’s apartment demanding “real accountability.”

Jenkins closes by saying, “From that day on, DSA has been my political home.”

🏳️‍⚧️ From “Death to America” to “A Strap and a Strategy”: A Look Inside Arm The Dollz 🏳️‍⚧️

Arm The Dollz is a trans revolutionary socialist group using explicit anti-American rhetoric while embracing militant politics.

In its own promo video, the group invokes “Death to America” and “Death to the Zionist Regime,” then warns of “dangerous times” and asks how to prepare for the “war that we’re about to face.”

Pair that with its calls for revolutionary struggle and talk of “a strap and a strategy,” and the picture is pretty clear.

When a group is preparing for open conflict, one can only hope the Feds are already investigating.

🧵Stick around because I am 99% sure one of these speakers was already being investigated by the FBI. The matching outfit, hair, nails, and bracelets all strongly suggest the first speaker is Ermiya Fanaeian of Armed Queers SLC.

Fanaeian has also been active in Cuba organizing and has said that the experience further radicalized her and helped her “level up” as an organizer.

She shared this on her Instagram story as well. @pythonintercept flagged it for me a few weeks ago, since she is someone many of us already keep an eye on.

As appalling as the Times Square video is, it still does not crack Jennifer Koonings’s top three.

Here she is on a trip to Iran, touring the regime’s National Aerospace Park and acting as an apologist for the Islamic Republic. Looks like the Axis of Resistance kicked her to the curb job-wise, so now she’s pivoting to the Crackhead Barney strategy of yelling at random people in public. And it wasn’t just Iran apologetics either; she was pushing Hezbollah propaganda too.

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🧵Calla Walsh was live on a podcast this morning where she said she feels “lucky to be alive” watching what she hopes is the fall of the “US empire and the Zionist entity,” and called for urgent, concrete “material contributions” to an “international resistance front.”

I’ll be breaking this down further, including the names she dropped, what exactly she was calling for, and which podcast this was. I think she was toning down her language for YouTube and Lara Sheehi’s new podcast, but keep in mind this is someone who previously asked, “Why weren’t there 100 more Elias Rodriguezes?” That's her definition of a "material contribution."

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🚨 DSA’s Cuba work is more organized than many realize, with delegations, fundraising through the Venceremos Fund, licensed aid channels, influencer outreach, and internal plans for a future pro-Cuba bloc of elected officials.

My latest for @CityJournal @CityJournal It’s a fun article, but it also shows how complex this DSA operation really is. These are not Bernie Bros. They are political actors who see themselves as part of an international, anti-imperial Left that admires the Cuban Revolution. city-journal.org/article/democr…

🚨 American Law Professor Eulogizes Iran’s Supreme Leader as a “True Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary” and Says “There are millions… calling for revenge, frankly.”

This isn’t coming from Tehran state TV. It’s coming from Nina Farnia, an Albany Law School professor.

“For many, Ayatollah Khamenei was an important figure of revolution and resistance… to all the peoples of the world that support the liberation of our peoples.”

Farnia says Iran is holding its own in a “struggle against the most powerful, vile empire in world history,” and argues that “getting rid of Israel,” which she calls a “military base” and a “genocidal entity,” is an “existential matter” for anti-imperialists.

She describes his assassination as “an incredible loss” and calls it “a tragic, tragic loss for the resistance, for the region, and I think for the world.”

Farnia also worries people in the diaspora will “complicate” Khamenei’s legacy, which she treats as a shame because “he was brilliant.”

Then it starts sounding like cope. She frames his death as “martyrdom” and suggests he may be more powerful now that he’s gone.

“A martyr never dies… a martyr can be more powerful after life than while living… and in the case of Ayatollah Khamenei, it seems like that actually may be true.” Here is her official school bio. It’s wild how often the “anti-imperialist” apologia and the critical race theory lane overlap in academia.

🧵From Pentagon Bombs to Praise for Mamdani: Bill Ayers Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

I tuned into this Bill Ayers (Weather Underground) interview and it’s a gold mine—if you’re cataloging unrepentant radicalism.

He casually reminisces about putting “a stick of dynamite in the Pentagon,” then slips into “overthrow capitalism” and “abolition” talk like it’s a morning routine. He recounts meeting Vietnamese revolutionaries in Cuba before going underground, name-checks Rashid Khalidi, explicitly calls Zohran Mamdani’s election “very helpful,” and even jokes about the Leonardo DiCaprio character in One Battle After Another.

Stick around, I’ve got more Ayers clips to share. Bill Ayers lays out his “two legs” theory for revolutionary change: mobilization from below, what he calls “fire from below,” paired with institutional politics. He explicitly praises Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, and Bernie Sanders, framing them as useful, but ultimately secondary to mass movements.

Ayers is blunt about the hierarchy. Elections do not drive change. Pressure does. He points to Barack Obama as proof: without an independent movement applying force, even sympathetic politicians will fold.

He says he admires figures like Mamdani because that kind of electoral organizing is a skill he does not have. His role, he insists, is agitation.

Ayers ends by saying the movement has to “talk through the contradictions and find common ground.” We’ll come back to that in the next clip.

Shame on @UCLA for canceling the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Bari Weiss. Code Pink and even Hasan Piker spent weeks pressuring UCLA to pull the plug, and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, who lives in China, was celebrating the cancellation on Instagram this morning. Here’s Jodie Evans’ IG story on it. And remember, just last week the State Department warned that Code Pink was operating as a foreign influence effort.

And you still bent the knee to an astroturfed cancellation campaign.

Cornell Career Services is hosting an info session with @anduriltech tomorrow. Student activists are already trying to get it canceled, and if past is prologue, they’ll try to disrupt it in the room too.

If this gets shut down, it won’t hurt Anduril. It hurts @Cornell students who came to network, learn, and compete for internships, only to have a recruiting event hijacked into a political spectacle.

Debate the politics all you want. Don’t sabotage career programming. Flagging this for you too, @PalmerLuckey! Here’s a longer version that makes clear the activists aren’t just targeting Anduril. They’ve gone after Boeing and Lockheed Martin too, and it’s becoming routine at Cornell, which is genuinely sad.

At some point you’re not “holding companies accountable,” you’re policing what your classmates are allowed to be interested in. Some students want to learn about engineering, defense tech, military service, or law enforcement careers.

Not everyone wants to spend college cosplaying permanent protest in a keffiyeh.

🧵 Super thread of mugshots from various University of Minnesota protest arrests.

If this is the campus pipeline, it’s fair to ask why parents keep writing checks. And why isn’t @usedgov looking at what’s being enabled here?

Buckle up. Unreal.
As always, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

🚨 BREAKING: Four University of Minnesota students have chained themselves to Morrill Hall in an on-campus protest against ICE. Yes, this is the same building students occupied back in October 2024.

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🚨 “Please Care Enough to Get the Bazooka” — Antifa Militancy Without the Filter

When people think of Antifa, Eric G. King should be a face that comes to mind. Why? Spend two minutes with this clip from a recent book talk and you’ll see how radical his worldview really is.

King openly describes assaulting police: “I’ve thrown shit at cops. I’ve thrown piss at cops.” Then he pivots to lamenting that activists aren’t willing to go far enough. Prison, he argues, has been normalized as an acceptable consequence, while rage should instead be directed at the people who “make money off prisons.”

His solution isn’t reform. It’s force. He mocks letter-writing campaigns and pleads for something more visceral. “Please care enough to write,” he says, “but also please care enough to get that bazooka.”

King also says he’s heavily medicated, describing violent impulses so extreme that without mood stabilizers he might “pull a knife on someone at a grocery store for bumping into you.”

From there, the worldview sharpens. Law enforcement is collectively defined as the enemy. He claims ICE is “militarized” and broadly smears them as “Proud Boys” and “militants.” His back tattoo says it plainly: “Every cop is my enemy.”

He then laments the state of the abolition movement, criticizing it as too theoretical instead of physically tearing down prisons.

The panel even acknowledges the possibility of federal surveillance, with King directing a message to the FBI agent he assumes is listening: “Go fucking kill yourself… go plant a garden.”

King is currently on a national book tour and has even been interviewed by Business Insider. This isn’t anonymous online rage. Here’s King telling the firebombing story that led to his arrest.

In 2014, after returning from Ferguson, he describes feeling isolated in Kansas City and frustrated that no one around him was willing to engage in what he considered real “direct action.” When his small affinity group failed to “raise the temperature,” he decided to escalate on his own and threw Molotov cocktails at a congressman’s office.

What follows is his account of the charges, the plea deal, and nearly a decade behind bars, much of it in solitary. He frames the attack as an extension of his then-insurrectionary anarchism, rooted in violence and system-toppling, before shifting to how prison reshaped his worldview.

This is speculation on my part, but I’ve long suspected the choice of target was deliberate, meant to make the attack read as a hate crime and inflame tensions in the city.

🧵The “General Strike” is the Far-Left dream scenario.

Listen to the progression in this clip. It starts with outrage over a shooting tied to ICE, then quickly moves to “it won’t be the Democrats” and “it won’t be anyone in the White House.” The conclusion is not reform or accountability, but escalation: “we shut it down” and “we launch a general strike.”

That’s not a narrow demand about ICE enforcement. It’s a broader revolutionary frame that rejects normal politics and treats mass economic disruption as the end goal. It’s also worth noting this is a Singham Network talking point, and they’re pushing it hard. And have been for months.

“A general strike is the next step… to build a socialist future.”

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